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From: mac3n@babbage.acc.virginia.edu (Alex Colvin)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: "interprocedural analysis useless f
Summary: language-independent IL
Message-ID: <376@babbage.acc.virginia.edu>
Date: 20 Oct 88 15:17:48 GMT
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> > Perhaps the conclusion here is that language design up front simplifies
> > optimization in back.  What does this tell us about universal intermediate
> > languages?
> 
> Not much,

Actually, I was thinking of machine-dependent, but language-independent ILs.
Does using a C back end mean losing a lot of aliasing knowledge?  How about
things like display pointers?